Week 4

session notes

Before Class

• Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Nusrat Jahan Mim, and Steven J. Jackson, “Residual Mobilities: Infrastructural Displacement and Post-Colonial Computing in Bangladesh”
• two excerpts from André Brock, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020)
  • “The Soft Bigotry of Low Information Expectations” pp. 40-41
  • “…and Mobile Digital Practice” pp. 136-38

• Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit, Vice (12:12)

• Interview with Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, on the FCC’s Broadband podcast (29:22)

• answers to these #response-questions:
  • How do Ahmed et al. define “mobility”?
  • What are some of the problems Brock sees with framings of the “digital divide”?

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Practicum

Queue up your text messages in a pen/paper notebook.

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Related Links

artifact of the week: phonographic voicemail

• Phonopost

maintenance

• The Maintainers research network

community mesh

• Rory Solomon, Meshiness: Mesh Networks and the Politics of Connectivity